The surge of “unaccompanied children” from Central America is based on a realistic assessment of their chances of remaining in the United States. The records from ICE show that very few of the thousands who have crossed the border from October 1. 2013 to the end of April 2014 have been sent home.

In that period ICE took into custody 141,525 migrants who were caught by the Border Patrol and CBP port of entry inspectors. Of those, 33,959 were convicted criminals and 107,566 had no criminal convictions. The non-criminals turned over to ICE tracks with the number of OTM (other than Mexican) apprehended by the Border Patrol so far in FY 2014. By early June the number had reached 126,374 just in the Rio Grande Valley sector in south Texas. By 2013, fewer than 3,000 were deported.

The efforts to label these immigrants ‘refugees’ depends on the stories they have rehearsed. They cite poverty, unemployment, gang violence, but these problems are not new, but longstanding throughout Central America, and do not account for the tremendous surge in illegal immigration. Federal officials have noticed an increase in pregnant unaccompanied girls. Many illegal immigrants have said they traveled to American believing the Obama administration would never deport them if they made it across the Mexico-U.S. border.

The White House said on Monday that they intend to deport most of these unaccompanied minors, but once the immigrant has given a phone number of the ‘cousin’ or ‘family member,’ they are released and put on a bus. Agents are not allowed to check the phone numbers to see if they belong to an illegal or inquire as to who is at that location. The migrants are ordered to promise that they will return in 15 days for their hearing. Only 20 percent ever return. The rest have disappeared into the general population.

More than half of legal and illegal immigrant households from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras are receiving one form or another of major public assistance.

Obama has asked for $3.8 billion to house, feed, clothe and care for almost 30,000 illegal aliens for a full year. According to Ernest Istook, we could fly all of them home for one half of one percent of the $3.8 billion that Obama proposes. Major savings. The official term in federal statute is “undocumented alien children.” The combined airfare for 29,358 passengers would be $19.6million from McAllen Texas to Guatemala City. There is no federal law that requires officials to drag their feet on deporting the thousands of adults newly arrived from Central America.

Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Meet the Press that the top priority is “doing right by the children.” The law actually states the top priority is to safely repatriate those children to their country of origin.

The White House may “intend” to deport most of these unaccompanied minors, but it sounds like when the hearings are held, few of them will turn up, and it will be a matter of an inability to find them. All this secrecy is clearly hiding something. The only way to dissuade potential illegal immigrants is with

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